Garment-supporter.



'c. E. SCHAFFNER.

GARMENT SUPPORTER- APPLICATION FILED AUG-12.1912.

11,226,387 Patented May 15, 1917.

with its pivotal-clamp omitted;

CLARENCE E. SCHAFFNER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Application filed August 12, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE E. SOHAFF- NEE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of ()hio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment-supporters and especially to the metallic cast-oft devices that are separably used in connection with the support of hosiery on the wearer.

The object of the invention herein is to provide a cast-off device made up of separable parts or main members, one member to be used at the lower end of the upper supporter-member and the other to be used in connection with the lower supporter-member, the latter being directly connected with the hosiery, and said separable cast-ofl members being provided with a positively-locking fastener or coupler which constitutes the essential feature of the said invention and is a very important one in the connecting of the pair of hosiery supporting-members to avoid accidental parting and the consequent slipping of the hosiery from place.

The invention consists in certain novel features of structure that will be fully hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings Figure 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a garmentsupporting device embodying my invention in the cast-off member or portion thereof, both of the supporting-members being duly connected in positively-fastened relation by my improved cast-ofl device; Fig. 2, a front elevation of the lower member of alone and the metallic cast-off device taken Fig. 3, a

vertical section of a cast-ofl' device embodying my invention herein, but omitting the web-supporting members that lead from the garment above to the hosiery below, and Fig. 4, a front elevation of the upper cast-ofl' member that carries the headed stud for locking-engagement with the lower cast-off member.

1 indicates the main strap or web of the upper, garment-supporting member and 2 the lower web that constitutes the buttonstrap, which is preferably bifurcated, as

customary. 3 is the customary slide-buckle on the main strap or web 1 to loop that, in turn,

carry the usual engages the upper hori Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1917. Serial No. 714,674.

zontal slot 5 member 6.

The upper cast-off member 6 has a headed stud 7 extending forwardly therefrom centrally below the slot 5.

'8 represents the body portion of the coupling cast ofl' buckle member, having its lower'edge formed into a hook 9 that is brought into closing-engagement with an elongated link 10. Forwardly projecting side flanges 11 are provided on the body portion 8 of the buckle-member and a clamp 12 pivoted at its opposite upper corners 13 in suitable holes or bearings made in the upper ends of the flanges 11, as best seen in Fig. 1. A manipulating thumb-piece 14- projects centrally from the lower edge of the clamp 12 for convenience in pivoting the clamp to and from locking-engagement, an inwardly-pr0jecting flange 15 being constructed along the inner or pivotal edge of the buckle-clamp 12, as best seen in Fig. 3 and being brought into forced engagement with the upper resilient portion 16 of the body portion 8 of the buckle-member in the cast-01f fastening operation. Inwardly-projecting stops 17 are provided on said resilient member 16 of the buckle to limit the rearward movement of the flange 15 on the clamp 12, although the thumb-piece 1i sufliciently limits the movement of the clamp 12 and no further limit would be ordinarily required.

A vertically-elongated opening 18 is made in the said resilient portion 16 of the buckle, intermediate the stops 1'? and located in said portion 16 so that the flange 15, when in closed position is arranged about half-way between the upper and lower edges of said opening 18, whereby, when the headed stud 7 on the upper cast-off member 6 is in engagement with said opening 18, the shank of the stud is forced back against the upper edge of said elongated opening and the head of the stud is in contact with said flange 15 so that the stud can not become disengaged from said elongated opening until the clamp is thrown outward on its pivots and the said flange 15 brought forward away from the edge of the head of said stud. A positive locking-engagement of said headed stud is assured when the clamp 12 is in closed position with the flange 15 in contact with the edge of the head of the stud 7, as clearly shown in Fig. 3 and no accidental release of the stud from the elongated opening can made in the metallic castolf take place, especially in view of the resiliency of the portion 16 of the buckle-member S that sustains the clamp 12 in seated position until forced into open position on its pivots by means of the thumb-piece 14:.

I claim In a garment-supporter, a metallic cast-oil or coupling member comprising a transversely-slotted plate provided with a for- \\=ardly-projecting headed-stud, a coupling buckle-member provided With a vertical slot or elongated opening pierced in its upper end and adapted to engage the said headedstud, a pair of forwardly-projecting stops on Copies '01 this patent may be obtained for the outer face of the buckle-member one at either side of said vertical slot, and a vertical clamp-plate PIVOtELllX-IIlOllIltGd at its uphaving an inwardly-projecting horizontal flange at its upper end that is adapted to engage both the head of said stud and the said stops When the stud is in full lockingengagement with said vertical slot. 1

CLARENCE E. SGHAFFNER. Witnesses: V

JOHN ELIAS JONES, LORETTA LUCK.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0. 

